Menantu Pahlawan Negara by Sarjana

Chapter 151

Leslie’s gaze sharpened. He wondered if his mother had told Aurelia about his true identity.

“What else could I be?” he asked coldly.

Aurelia didn’t sense anything odd. After all, Leslie had always been cold and distant.

“Maybe a businessman. You’re just as cunning as one,” Aurelia replied with an awkward laugh. “A cunning businessman, huh?”

Leslie put down his cup and wiped his hands.

Aurelia chuckled but eventually quieted down, realizing that it had been a bad joke. “Sorry.”

“If I’m a cunning businessman, what does that make you? A cunning businessman’s wife?” he asked.

Silence fell over them instantly. They were both rendered speechless as their conversation suddenly shifted to the topic of “wife”.

Aurelia was unsure of how to react to this.

Leslie wiped his mouth and changed the subject. “I’m done eating. It’s settled then. You don’t have to worry about anything. Just be yourself on Friday.”

Aurelia nodded. “Thank you. Sorry for troubling you.”

followed suit and went to pay the

the restaurant, the sun was

Leslie. However, he was too tall, and she had to stand on tiptoes even though

steps before his head bumped into the top of the umbrella. He sighed and stopped, then took the umbrella

“I’ll hold it.”

looking up at him with a

smile, Leslie’s grip around the umbrella’s handle

radiate a soft glow. Her lustrous black hair, fair skin, and

that he was

composed himself

some distance between them, when Aurelia looked at their shadows

detail. Then, she was reminded of the three years she had spent with

her up. But by the time they reached the subway, her

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incessantly about getting a few

come to pick you up. I’m doing this because I love you so

she

in love for the first time, a person would tend to magnify the

her up in the heavy rain was an act of love. But she had ignored the fact that

over as she

direction the smell was coming from, just to see people